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Medan (II)

II. MEDAN, or Madan, the third Son of Abraham and Keturah, Gen. xxv. 2. There is a good deal of Probability, that Medan and Midian his Brother, peopled the Countrey of Midian or Madian, which is to the East of the Dead Sea1; very different from another Countrey of Midian to the East of the Red-Sea, which will be spoken of afterwards.

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  1. Euseb. & Hieronym. locis Hebr. ↩

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